Photonics Research, Volume. 8, Issue 5, 737(2020)

Enhanced nonlinear instabilities in photonic circuits with exceptional point degeneracies

Suwun Suwunnarat1, Rodion Kononchuk1, Andrey Chabanov2, Ilya Vitebskiy3, Nicholaos I. Limberopoulos3, and Tsampikos Kottos1、*
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  • 1Department of Physics, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut 06459, USA
  • 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78249, USA
  • 3Air Force Research Laboratory, Sensors Directorate, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433, USA
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    Suwun Suwunnarat, Rodion Kononchuk, Andrey Chabanov, Ilya Vitebskiy, Nicholaos I. Limberopoulos, Tsampikos Kottos. Enhanced nonlinear instabilities in photonic circuits with exceptional point degeneracies[J]. Photonics Research, 2020, 8(5): 737

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    Paper Information

    Category: Physical Optics

    Received: Dec. 11, 2019

    Accepted: Mar. 11, 2020

    Published Online: Apr. 26, 2020

    The Author Email: Tsampikos Kottos (tkottos@wesleyan.edu)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.385780

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